• June 30, 2005 | The Recorder

    Cable, Porn Industries Run Into Acacia

    For years adult entertainment Web sites fought alone against a patent enforcer that demanded a portion of their profits.Now they've been joined on the battlefield by more than a dozen

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  • July 9, 2001 | The Recorder

    Full Steam Ahead

    The party switch in the U.S. Senate may have rattled most political insiders -- with at least one notable exception.The IP community seems just as happy with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,

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  • March 13, 2000 | National Law Journal

    U.K.-U.S. Faceoff on Patent

    In late February, a patent for an Internet-based customer referral system issued to Amazon.com. Not long afterward, a British company sent out a press release claiming to have put similar technolog

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  • January 22, 2001 | The Recorder

    Wilson Just Says No to Pay Hikes

    Digging in its heels on associate pay raises, Palo Alto, Calif.'s Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced last Friday that it won't match San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harr

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  • August 17, 2000 | The Recorder

    Getting Wired to Wow Jurors

    Plaintiffs attorney Alan Exelrod grabbed the remote control-like device, scanned a bar code from a sheet of paper, and shot the data into a DVD player.Instantly, a huge video screen fl

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  • October 25, 2000 | Legal Times

    Long Odds For Software Law

    The chips are down for software manufacturers.What once seemed a sure bet -- passage of a controversial bill that would give the industry almost absolute power in determining the terms

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  • March 8, 2005 | The Recorder

    Orrick Snatches Four More From Venture Law Group

    Marie-Anne HogarthJust two weeks after grabbing five partners from Heller Ehrman's Venture Law Group, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has nabbed four more. This time the group in

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  • February 29, 2000 | The Recorder

    Medical Web Site Calls Defections to Rival 'Malpractice'

    Next to pornography and sports, more people seek health information online than just about anything else. It's little wonder, then, that health care Web site provider Healtheon Inc. smelled

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  • October 24, 2007 | The Recorder

    San Diego Lawyers Flee Fires

    LOS ANGELES � As a brown haze shrouded Southern California on Tuesday, law firms in San Diego's Carmel Valley region remained shuttered, and more and more local attorneys were forced to leave

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  • September 22, 2003 | The Recorder

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    CITY ATTORNEY BECOMING A PLAYER IN STATE POLITICSSan Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera makes no bones about his position on the gubernatorial election: No on the recall, ye

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